Subject: Re: A Philosophical Diversion
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/10/11
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3117132420087676@naggum.no>
* Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
| That is the standard attitude on lisp, and it was formed when the
| professors who taught the current generation of programmers last looked
| at it. Say, around Lisp 1.5.
|
| At that time it was basically correct to say "Lisp was a general purpose
| language only in the sense that a Turing machine is." Lisp was a purely
| interpretive language in a day when every cpu cycle cost $$ and lisp
| programs took lots of RAM in a day when 32K was a HUGE computer (of
| course that was 36-bit words, not bytes).
LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, ISBN 0-262-13011-4.
Table of Contents:
...
APPENDIX B The LISP Interpreter
APPENDIX C The LISP Assembly Program (LAP)
APPENDIX D The LSIP Compiler
...
date of publication: 1962-08-17.
it cost USD 8.95 when I bought my copy at the MIT Book Store a few years
ago. you're advised to read it before you make claims about LISP 1.5.
#:Erik